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Onnik Krikorian

Regional Editor for Caucasus

About Onnik Krikorian

1161 posts · joined 2006-01-21

Onnik Krikorian is a journalist and photojournalist of Armenian and English descent who has been resident in the Republic of Armenia since 1998.

He also works extensively in the Republic of Georgia and until moving to Armenia worked on the Kurds in Turkey and the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh.

His articles and photographs have been published by The Los Angeles Times, New Internationalist, The Scotsman, Transitions Online, Middle East Insight, Oneworld.net, EurasiaNet, The Institute for War & Peace Reporting, New York University Press, UNICEF, and Amnesty International, among others. Krikorian has also worked as a fixer for Al Jazeera English, the BBC and The Wall Street Journal.

He maintains a blog from Armenia and the South Caucasus at http://blog.oneworld.am and also posts for the London-based Frontline Club at http://frontlineclub.com/blogs/onnikkrikorian.

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November 18th, 2009

Azerbaijan: News of IRI departure met with concern

A small portrait of the translator Onnik Krikorian · 20:17 · Americas , Central Asia & Caucasus
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Following the cessation of radio broadcasts from foreign stations, as well as the sentencing last week of two video blogging youth activists, comes news of what some see as yet another threat to a fledgling process of democratization. 0 comments  · read »

November 16th, 2009

Central Asia & Caucasus

AdnanEmin's Blog, Prison Diary, a new blog from Azerbaijan, has been set up to republish letters sent from prison in the oil-rich former Soviet republic by Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, two detained video blogging youth activists sentenced last week and considered by Amnesty International to be prisoners of conscience. The first post carries a message from Milli after his sentence.

November 15th, 2009

Azerbaijan: More reaction to video blogger trial verdictPhotos postVideo post

A small portrait of the translator Onnik Krikorian · 14:36, November 15th, 2009 · Central Asia & Caucasus
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Days after the sentencing of two video blogging youth activists in Azerbaijan, other bloggers are starting to speak out about the imprisonment of Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli. The two online activists will spend 2 and 2.5 years in jail after a trial which most consider to be politically motivated ... 2 comments  · read »

November 11th, 2009

Azerbaijan: Bloggers sentencedVideo post

A small portrait of the translator Onnik Krikorian · 11:03, November 11th, 2009 · Central Asia & Caucasus
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As many of their supporters feared, and on the same day as a round table on the case against two detained video blogging youth activists, a court in Baku, Azerbaijan, earlier passed sentence on Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli. The verdict and first reaction spread on Twitter. 12 comments  · read »

November 7th, 2009

Central Asia & Caucasus

Sheki, Azerbaijan makes two posts on specific traditions practiced in her home country. In the first post, the blog explains how the shoes of visitors to homes are paired outside the front door, and in the second it looks at pickling white cucumbers.

Central Asia & Caucasus

Sheki, Azerbaijan comments on Azerbaijan's recent victory in the European Team Chess Championship. The blog says that it is proud of the achievement and hopes for more victories.

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